Quoting Karthik Balakrishnan (karbalak@gmail.com): > Thanks Christian.. but what abt the cd drive detection? using the netinst > images, my cdrom is not detected.. using regular cd image my drive gets > detected.. could you please help me with that too The question is: what type of interface is the CD/DVD drive on? Dell often uses USB drives on their laptops....especially when the CD is external (not sure this is the case of Inspiron series, though)